2 killed in separate suburban crashes

A 35-year-woman was killed after the car she was driving went into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on with another vehicle in south suburban Matteson, officials said today.

Christine Brown, 35, of the 17000 block of Anthony Avenue in Hazel Crest, was pronounced dead at 10:05 p.m. Monday at St. James Hospital in Olympia Fields, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

The accident happened on Vollmer Road on an I-57 expressway overpass at about 9:19 p.m., said Matteson Deputy Chief Ken Arvin.

Brown was driving her 2003 Chevy Impala west on the eastbound lane of the two-lane road, Arvin said.